Hazel Grace: The book is written from her perspective. Hazel is a seventeen year-old girl that has Thyroid cancer which spread to her lungs.
Isaac: He is a boy in Hazel's support group that is suffering from eye cancer. Hazel and Issac become friends.
Augustus: Augustus is Isaac's friend who survived his first bout of cancer. He attended the support group one day to support Isaac. He met Hazel there and befriended her.
Key Questions:
1. How do Hazel and Augustus know each other? Hazel met Augustus while she was at her support group meeting. Augustus attended the support group to support his friend Isaac, and he befriended Hazel.
2. What is the point of the Support Group? The point of the support group is to help young people with cancer learn how to deal with it. It is a place for them to get to know people just like them so that they know they are not alone. It's a place to help them get through the support and get through their depression.
3. Do any of the characters in the book relate to you? Noel has not related to a character in the book yet. I think that I can relate to Hazel's mom, but from a different perspective. Hazel's mom has to watch her daughter suffer through her illness. I can relate to this because I have watched a few people that were close to me in my life suffer from cancer.
4. What did Hazel spend her special wish on? Hazel's special wish was to go to Disney World and she did.
5. Who is your favorite character and why? Noel and I both discussed our favorite characters. We both have the same favorite character and it's Augustus. Augustus is just the character with the great sense of humor, and he is just so supportive of the other characters in the book. I just like his personality and the way that it is described.
- Hazel Grace: The book is written from her perspective. Hazel is a seventeen year-old girl that has Thyroid cancer which spread to her lungs.
- Isaac: He is a boy in Hazel's support group that is suffering from eye cancer. Hazel and Issac become friends.
- Augustus: Augustus is Isaac's friend who survived his first bout of cancer. He attended the support group one day to support Isaac. He met Hazel there and befriended her.
Key Questions:1. How do Hazel and Augustus know each other? Hazel met Augustus while she was at her support group meeting. Augustus attended the support group to support his friend Isaac, and he befriended Hazel.
2. What is the point of the Support Group? The point of the support group is to help young people with cancer learn how to deal with it. It is a place for them to get to know people just like them so that they know they are not alone. It's a place to help them get through the support and get through their depression.
3. Do any of the characters in the book relate to you? Noel has not related to a character in the book yet. I think that I can relate to Hazel's mom, but from a different perspective. Hazel's mom has to watch her daughter suffer through her illness. I can relate to this because I have watched a few people that were close to me in my life suffer from cancer.
4. What did Hazel spend her special wish on? Hazel's special wish was to go to Disney World and she did.
5. Who is your favorite character and why? Noel and I both discussed our favorite characters. We both have the same favorite character and it's Augustus. Augustus is just the character with the great sense of humor, and he is just so supportive of the other characters in the book. I just like his personality and the way that it is described.